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When Republican voters head to the polls to cast their vote in the presidential primary in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, helping to nominate the presidential candidate of their choosing is not as simple as selecting the candidate’s name on the ballot.

Because of Pennsylvania’s unusual delegate allocation process, what will carry more weight is the delegates who voters select to represent their district at the Republican convention. And the three remaining GOP presidential campaigns are waging shadow campaigns to get friendly delegates elected.

Poll: Trump, Clinton ride momentum into Connecticut

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton enjoy the support of roughly half of likely Connecticut primary voters in their respective parties, according to the results of the latest Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

Trump’s level of support among likely Republican voters is 48 percent, outperforming by 20 points his nearest competitor, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who earned 28 points. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz finished a distant third with 19 percent and 5 percent undecided.

It looks as though Trump will win every New York county except for Manhattan. More importantly, it looks as though he’ll eventually get something like 90 delegates of the 95 available in New York, winning all but one congressional district (he’s down by 70 votes to Kasich in the 12th congressional district on the East Side of Manhattan with all precincts reporting) and finishing above 50 percent in all but a handful of them. That’s right in line with the deliberately optimistic path-to-1,237 projections that we outlined for Trump last week, which had him finishing with 91 delegates in New York.

With Don­ald Trump’s blo­wout win in New York and five more Trump-friendly states just a week away, Re­pub­lic­ans in­tent on block­ing their fron­trun­ner from the pres­id­en­tial nom­in­a­tion will have no choice but to be­come down­right un­demo­crat­ic – with a lower-case “D.”

A Na­tion­al Journ­al re­view of the re­main­ing states sug­gests that even if Trump does poorly in In­di­ana and loses win­ner-take-all con­tests in Neb­raska, South Dakota and Montana, he will likely still end the primary sea­son with close to 1,150 del­eg­ates.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Win Easily in New York Primary

Donald J. Trump wrested back control of the Republican presidential race on Tuesday with a commanding victory in the New York primary, while Hillary Clinton dealt a severe blow to Senator Bernie Sanders with an unexpectedly strong win that led her to declare that the Democratic nomination was “in sight.”

The Queens-born, Manhattan-made Mr. Trump was poised to take most of the 95 Republican delegates at stake, substantially adding to his current lead over Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and significantly improving his chances of winning the Republican nomination.

We did the math. Cruz was smart to campaign in a Bronx district with almost no Republican voters.

When Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz came to the Bronx to campaign in the run-up to the New York primary, ridicule was not far away. After all, what is a Republican candidate doing in the staunchly Democratic, minority-majority northern part of New York City? What is he doing in New York State at all, when Donald Trump is nearly certain to carry the most votes and, according to market-based forecasts, has an 85 percent chance to win more than 50 percent of the vote?